Re: Proposal for removal of outdated/orphaned UPS daemon packages
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> [Cc'd and follow-up to debian-qa]
>
> Hi Arnaud!
>
> You wrote:
>
> > some old fashioned power daemons for UPSs are still in database.
> > I'm talking about bpowerd and upsd which are not maintained
> > (no upstream source available), and orphaned (some bugs are 4
> > years old !).
> >
> > Those might be removed, and supersedes by Network UPS Tools - NUT.
> > This one:
> > - is already debianized,
> > - is actively maintained,
> > - has an extensible networked architecture,
> > - already supports the above softwares features, and more,
> > - is becoming the SANE of UPSs !
>
> If NUT indeed has all the features and supports all hardware bpowerd and
> upsd do, feel free to file a bug againt ftp.debian.org, asking for their
> removal.
It'd be nice though to include something in *the sense of*:
Superseeds: bpowerd, upsd
to guide the users to the right place...
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